Week 2 - WTA Premier ($731,000) - Sydney, Australia Hard

Peter too · Tennis legend

Week 2 - WTA Premier ($731,000) - Sydney, Australia Hard

LordBrownof · Futures level

Do we know who, if anyone, Jo is travelling with?

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Pereira only wins matches on clay.
Combined for 2013 & 2014, she has 63 WTA Tour wins.
61 of those were on clay.

Good draw.

paulisi · Tennis legend

First set to Joko 6-2

indiana · Tennis legend

Jo breaks for *4-3 and saves two break points during the following 22 point game.

5-3*

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Breaks to love to close it out.
GSM JoKo 6-2 6-3

Ons Jabeur next, which is as good a draw as an ALT could ever hope for in Q2 of a Premier.

Peter too · Tennis legend

Q1: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 146 beat PEREIRA, Teliana (BRA) 110 6-2 6-3

Q2: KONTA, Johanna (GBR) 146 v JABEUR, Ons (TUN) 142 CH=135 2013

Jabeur just knocked out Shuai Zhang the 4th seed

philwrig · Hall of fame

At least we now know for sure Jo's in form, but another win would be nice, to set her up for Oz qualies.

steven · Tennis legend

Nice win, though as Ali says, Pereira is very much a clay court specialist. ITF gives a different career high (and different CH year) for Jabeur - not a big deal, but:

QR2: (alt) Johanna Konta WR 146 v Ons Jabeur (TUN) WR 142 (CH 133 last Feb)

philwrig · Hall of fame

Jabeur is an underranked up and coming player, but entirely beatable.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Yay. Well done Jo.

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

I don't rate Jabeur that much. She's obviously a decent player but nothing special. Here's hoping Jo keep going now

AliBlahBlah · All-time great

Nice clinical victory.
Kiki next, H2H foreboding.

Q2: Johanna KONTA (GBR) 146 defeated Ons JABEUR (TUN) 142 6-2 6-2

FQR: Johanna KONTA (GBR) 146 vs. Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA) [q6] 67 (CH 36 08/2013)
Senior H2H: 0-4
Apr 2014, Monterrey WTA, R32, Hard - Outdoor, 4-6 2-6
Jun 2013, Birmingham WTA, R32, Grass, JK (WC) KM [12], 4-6 1-6
Mar 2011, Irapuato $25K, R32, Hard - Outdoor, 6-4 4-6 6-7(12)
Feb 2011, Stockholm $25K, R16, Hard - Indoor, 3-6 4-6

Kounosuke · Intermediate Club Player

I think this may be as far as it goes for Jo. I hope not though.

Even if she does manage to win this match, she has a very tough challenge ahead. 3 of the 4 Qualifiers are up against seeded players in the MD, and this tournament is extremely loaded with top quality players. If she were to avoid them, she'd be playing someone she has a 0-2 H2H record against in R1. No easy draws at this level, but this one looks tougher than usual.

-- Edited by Kounosuke on Saturday 10th of January 2015 08:02:20 AM

PaulM · Tennis legend

Jo doesn't want to win too many matches here, needs to get to Melbourne. Great job on Jabeur but no problem if she loses now.